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Notes 14.3 Summary

• Pip is closer to Magwitch than he knows since they both base the value of people on
societally structured hierarchies.
• Pip tells her that Herbert and Matthew Pocket are different from her other relatives.
• Pip has dinner with Jaggers and Wemmick at Jaggers’ home and learns from the host
that Drummle has indeed married Estella.

• Magwitch is in jail and quite ill. Herbert is leaving for Egypt with the firm in the
position that Pip, and now Miss. Havisham, had secretly set up for him.
• Pip returns to his home town and is treated with certain coldness by the town that was
so kind to him when he was on his way to great expectations.

14.4 Keywords

Hierarchy : a ranking system ordered according to status.
Groomed : prepare or train for a purpose or activity.
Churchyard : an enclosed area surrounding a church.
Benefactor : a person who gives money or other help to a person or cause.

14.5 Review Questions

1. What is the new problem that Pip faces?
2. What is his frightful but rich patron’s name?

3. What does Wemmick advise Pip to get hold of?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Benefactor 2. Watchman

3. Vengeance 4. Clara’s
5. Herbert 6. Prison

14.6 Further Readings

Books Great Expectations (Non-Detailed) — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens — Michael Slater
Charles Dickens — Harold Bloom

Online links http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/greatexpectations/
http://www.shmoop.com/great-expectations/summary.html
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmGreatExpect02.asp

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